Modelling Energy Consumption of Relay-Enabled MAC Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks

Ahmad, Rizwan and Zheng, Fu-Chun and Drieberg , Micheal and Olafsson, Sverrir and Fitch, Michael (2009) Modelling Energy Consumption of Relay-Enabled MAC Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks. In: International Symposium on Wireless and Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), 11-13 February 2009, Melbourne, Australia.

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Abstract

To enhance the throughput of ad hoc networks, dual-hop relay-enabled transmission schemes have recently been proposed. Since in ad hoc networks throughput is normally related to their energy consumption, it is important to examine the impact of using relay-enabled transmissions on energy consumption. In this paper, we present an analytical energy consumption model for dual-hop relay-enabled medium access control (MAC) protocols. Based on the recently reported relay-enabled distributed coordination function (rDCF), we have shown the efficacy of the proposed analytical model. This is a generalized model and can be used to predict energy consumption in saturated relay-enabled ad hoc networks via energy decomposition. This is helpful in designing MAC protocols for cooperative communications and it is shown that using a relay results not only in a better throughput but also better energy efficiency.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects: T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Departments / MOR / COE: Departments > Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Depositing User: Micheal Drieberg
Date Deposited: 23 Dec 2010 08:53
Last Modified: 23 Dec 2010 08:53
URI: http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/3656

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